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To: Brian Litzinger <brian@mediacity.com>
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Subject: Re: Unkillable process 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 19 Nov 95 04:49:06 PST."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 05:02:40 -0800
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>FreeBSD 2.0.5
>
>22014 i3- IEs+   0:01.24  (rlogin)
>22040 i3- IE+    0:00.19 rlogin -E -8 easy1.mediacity.com         
>
>Won't die in response to a 'kill -9'.  Anyway to determine where
>they are actually stuck?
...
>Guessing, I suspect it is stuck in ttywait, and it has something to do
>with hanging up the modem with the process running.

   Right. This bug was recently fixed (fixed in 2.1-release).

-DG